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On Monday, former UFC middleweight champion Rich ‘Ace’ Franklin decided to officially announce his retirement. Franklin is a legend in the sport, known as the guy who went from being a high school match teacher to a UFC champion. The guy who earned his nickname, ‘Ace’, for his uncanny resemblance of actor Jim Carrey, went...

UFC and Reebok’s deal may restrict the fighters from wearing their sponsors to the octagon, but before fight week they are allowed to wear anything they want! Some fighters lost their sponsors due to the fact that they will no longer be able to promote brands on television, but others stuck with their sponsors! UFC...

Diehard fans of mixed martial arts who have been dreaming of watching Fedor Emelianenko throw down in the octagon let out a collective groan when it was announced he would be fighting in a new Japan-based promotion on New Years Eve. On the bright side, “The Last Emperor” will be returning to the “Land of...

UFC 190, which saw a main event between UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and Brazilian Beth Correia, looks to be the biggest PPV event for the UFC, sine 2013, when Chris Weidman took on Anderson Silva for the second time. According to Dave Meltzer, via MMAFighting, the event is estimated to have brought in over...

Today the CABMMA, Brazil’s athletic commission, released the results of the ‘UFC 190: Rousey vs. Correia’ drug tests. UFC 190 went down on Aug. 1 in Brazil, where UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey took on Bethe Correia in the night’s main event. It didn’t last long however, with Rousey landing a punch 34 second into...

Apparently, UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo has had a change in heart when it comes to the upcoming ban on IVs for the use of rehydrating after weigh-ins. Aldo came out a little while back and slammed the new rule, insisting that he’s still going to use one because they wouldn’t dare cancel his fight...

Early, very early, this morning it was announced that undefeated UFC bantamweight Holly Holm would be fighting champion Ronda Rousey at UFC 195. Sounds pretty good right, another undefeated vs. undefeated story line to run with….but what happened to Miesha Tate? After Tate’s win over Jessica Eye, which was set up as a potential number...

UFC lightweight Edson Barboza has big goals for 2016 and believes he’ll be able to achieve them. He’s coming off of a win over Paul Felder in a ‘Fight of The Night’ scrap at UFC on FOX 16, back in July, and is ready to get back in there in hopes of getting closer to...

UFC 193, which will feature the welterweight title fight between Robbie Lawler and Carlos Condit will officially take place at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium. The news was confirmed by UFC president Dana White, who also confirmed that a rematch between heavyweights Mark Hunt and ‘Bigfoot’ Silva will take place on the card as well. Lawler vs...

“I left a title shot in [my last promotion] to come to the UFC. If I wanted to win that belt I could have stayed and done it, but I wanted to be back in the sport of MMA, not the MMA entertainment business.” ‘The Barn Cat’ Tamdan McCrory, recently talked to UFC.com about his...

“Basically me and Dave Sholler sat down and he’s was like “look bro, each time I hear you do interviews you stop and edit yourself. Like, I know who you are as a person and I just felt you’ve hidden yourself.” So when he told me that, then I was like “okay, well I’ll just...

Now it looks like the achievements of UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey are going to be causing change in the boxing world, or at least that’s the thought behind this recent decision from boxing legend Shane Mosley. Mosley recently announced, via a press release, that he will be adding a women’s boxing bout to...

Blame it on the alcohol guys. UFC fighter Antonio Braga Neto recently had a mishap in a bar and now intends on suing the establishment. So what happened? Allegedly the UFC middleweight had a little bit too much to drink while in a bar and urinated on the floor. He was then thrown out by...

Where are you ‘straight outta’? Yes ever since the Straight Outta Compton marketing tool, which allows people to put their own picture with a caption ‘Straight Outta ____’, came out it’s been all over the internet. You can’t dare open up any sort of social media app without seeing dozens of the straight outta wherever...

Before WEC merged with UFC in 2010, smaller fighters always had the stigma that they could not consistently provide exciting fights. The fact that WEC became such a commodity that UFC eventually absorbed it proved the theory to be a myth as fighters like Jose Aldo, Dominick Cruz, and Urijah Faber have put on some...

It looks like the fighters of the octagon are losing their MINDS with the lack of fights going on this week. UFC lightweight “Stormin’” Norman Parke appeared to be so bored, he was dared to run into the ocean butt-naked and actually went through with it! Of course, Parke commented on this video saying, “You’s...

Earlier today the Nevada State Athletic Commission, during a disciplinary hearing, decided to suspend former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva for a year as well as fining him and changing his win over Nick Diaz to a No Contest. The ruling came after lengthy testimony and explanations from Silva and his team, which ended up...

The internet went into an uproar when it was discovered that a dentist from America went to Zimbabwe and hunted and killed a lion, who the locals called Cecil. The lion was also a part of a study being done Oxford University, who had placed a tracking collar on the lion. Lets remember that UFC...

Be careful what you wish for on social media, especially when trying to taunt retired MMA fighters. Retired UFC fighter and current Invicta FC matchmaker and commentator Julie Kedzie recently grew tired of a certain Twitter troll, who challenged her to a fight. So she decided to go ahead and accept that challenge. Kenzie gave...

Miesha Tate proved the bookies right when she walked out of the octagon with her hands raised after her bout with Jessica “Evil” Eye. Tate put on a fantastic performance, but Eye let her hands fly and connected several times. Both women could have dropped each other at any given point, but neither gave up...

According to the ‘Original Gangster’, Chael Sonnen, the UFC featherweight champion is threatening to go after him and the UFC in court. Sonnen said, on his podcast, that a Brazilian lawyer called him and said Jose Aldo is going to sue him for defamation if he doesn’t stop talking about Aldo’s injury. Check it out!...

Some think it was a controversial decision and possibly should have gone to Thales Leites, but it was Michael Bisping who grabbed the split decision in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Glasgow. Check out what other UFC fighter had to say about the decision! People bitching about Bisping decision it was close but...

UFC welterweight and TUF 1 vet Mike ‘Quick’ Swick has officially retired from the sport of MMA. Swick hadn’t been active in quite some time, until he came back at UFC 189 this past Saturday and loss a tough decision to Alex Garcia. After the fight Swick decided to hang up the gloves and call...

Conor McGregor became the UFC interim featherweight champion this past weekend in Las Vegas by defeating Chad Mendes via second-round TKO in their main event fight at UFC 189. It was a fight that most MMA fans and fighters tuned in to watch, with the exception of reigning UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo, who was...

Yesterday was Independence Day and fighters of the UFC made sure to be wearing their red, white, and blue. Fighters from Dan Henderson to flyweight Ian McCall shared their patriotism with the world and showed off their pride in style! Check out these pictures below of fighters celebrating the holiday. Happy 4th! Be safe #america...

Once again, MMA fails in New York. The bill to get that sport legalized in the Big Apple did not get passed yesterday and needless to say, UFC officials weren’t very happy. Especially UFC president Dana White who took to Twitter to call out the ‘corrupt’ politicians. There was a lot of positive vibes floating around,...

There hasn’t been a lot of official information about Jose Aldo’s injury, or if he will be able to fight at UFC 189 against Conor McGregor, but we do have plenty of comments from fellow UFC fighters. Check it out: If Jose is out I'm willing to step in and beat @TheNotoriousMMA again!! @ufc @danawhite...

You watched Joanna Jedrzejczyk beat down Jessica Penne and keep her title, now check out what the MMA world had to say about the impressive performance by the champion. Joanna took it to Penne at UFC Fight Night: Berlin, landing punches over and over again. She also caught her with a big elbow that busted...

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